26^e année, 27 décembre 2025.

Intellectual Property and Music in the Theatre

13-15 May 2026, Barcelona
Institut d’Estudis Catalans

Deadline, Sunday 16 February 2026

All proposals should be submitted by email

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Keynote Speakers: Francesc Cortès (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Mark Everist (University of Southampton).

Scholars are invited to submit contributions on topics such as:

Intellectual property rights for music and lyrics

Economic and commercial aspects of reproducing works

Adaptation, traduction, recasting and paraphrase: permissions, rights and other arising issues

Transcriptions and arrangements of works

Performance aspects of different versions and textual issues like translations and adaptations

Rights management entities

From dramatic galleries to publishing companies and their efforts to influence public taste

Orchestral parts: rentals and loans

Disposizioni sceniche and livrets de mise en scène: the establishment of a stage canon and the derivation of its rights

Repertoire formation and changes related to rights management: the role of the press

Publishers, composers and authors: rights in conflict?

The circulation of music in Europe in relation to the development of copyright and its management

The official languages of the conference are English, French, Italian, and Spanish. Papers selected at the conference will be published in a miscellaneous volume

For any additional information, please contact

Organized by Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Research Groups GRAE-MUSC of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and ERASMUSH of the Universidad de Oviedo.

Musicologie.org, 56 rue de la Fédération, 93100 Montreuil. ☎ 06 06 61 73 41.

ISSN 2269-9910.

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Samedi 27 Décembre, 2025